Senior or Lead-Strategy and Risk Consultant (hybrid)

NiSource • Columbus, OH

6d • $82,200 - $123,200 • Hybrid

About The Position

NiSource’s Strategy and Risk Integration team helps the company make decisions under uncertainty by translating complex, ambiguous challenges into clear, actionable insights. The team combines strategy, risk, and analytical capabilities to deliver enterprise-wide analyses and practical solutions.

The Strategy and Risk Consultant participates on cross-functional project teams and provides research, analysis, and strategic insight. The role offers hands-on analysis, consultation, and collaboration across functions to support the development, communication, and execution of strategies, programs, and plans addressing current and emerging enterprise challenges. The consultant takes initiative, works effectively amid ambiguity, advances work proactively, and supports projects from evaluation and recommendation through closure. The role also maintains an external perspective on industry trends and best practices to inform decisions.

The role is available at Senior or Lead level, depending on experience. The listed salary range and minimum experience apply to the Senior level. The position is based at the Columbus, Ohio office, with a hybrid schedule of three days per week in the office. Occasional travel of 5–10% may be required, and work outside traditional business hours may be needed, including support for emergency response efforts.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in Business, Finance, Accounting, Economics, Engineering, Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.
• Experience using Excel to analyze data.
• Experience applying economic, statistical, and econometric concepts and methods.
• At least 2 years of relevant experience, such as corporate strategy, accounting, financial planning, risk, legal, or insurance; 4–6 years for Lead level.
• Experience producing accurate and timely work with minimal supervision.
• Experience identifying and resolving complex problems and managing conflicts.
• Experience leading and coordinating projects and supervising others’ work.
• Demonstrated critical-thinking and analytical skills.
• Demonstrated planning, organizational, and time-management skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and meet deadlines.
• Intermediate Microsoft Office skills, including Excel and Word; experience handling large datasets and building financial or other decision-support models in Excel; and advanced PowerPoint storytelling ability.
• Advanced interpersonal and written communication skills, including representing the company to external stakeholders and preparing presentations for senior executives.
• Self-starter who identifies, analyzes, and improves organizational processes.
• Sound judgment and initiative when working within departmental and corporate guidelines, including handling highly confidential information.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills and ability to engage with others.
• Legally authorized to work in the United States without requiring employer sponsorship now or in the future.

Nice To Haves

• Six Sigma background.
• Previous electric or gas utility experience.
• Experience with problem-solving tools and techniques such as failure mode analysis, stochastic modeling, cause analysis, fault trees, quantitative analysis, and Monte Carlo simulations.
• Master of Business Administration.
• Operational Excellence experience.
• Project Management experience.
• Ability to communicate effectively with senior leadership through clear, concise, impactful messages and strategic recommendations.
• Experience ensuring seamless scheduling to optimize productivity and time management.

Responsibilities

• Analyze industry, competitors, and customers; monitor trends and their impacts; identify opportunities and barriers; and synthesize quantitative and qualitative information to inform strategic decisions.
• Track, validate, and report initiative performance, providing insight into risks and potential upsides.
• Build and maintain Excel-based models to analyze data, evaluate financial and strategic tradeoffs, and support decision-making under uncertainty.
• Use enterprise risk information to research and assess primary and secondary risk impacts, using tools such as risk registers, dashboards, tracking metrics, and mitigation monitoring.
• Identify and frame issues, problems, and opportunities; integrate data from multiple sources; draw conclusions; develop practical solutions; and take timely, proactive action aligned with available facts, constraints, and consequences.
• Assist in developing, refining, and updating materials for executive audiences.
• Compile, organize, and format information for internal and external reporting, including quantitative and qualitative analysis; research reporting considerations; support new reporting requirements; develop business cases; and build supporting financial models.
• Lead assigned project tasks under the direction of the Strategy leadership team, managing deliverables, timelines, and resource coordination and escalating risks and issues as appropriate.
• Support emergency response efforts when required, potentially outside normal hours or beyond typical responsibilities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior